Incoming from Debian User:
> firstly, thanks to those who helped me w/ configuring my intel isa-
> bus ethernet nic.
>
> secondly, the machine in question is running kernel 2.2.20-idepci.
> i don't really recall when it was installed as the machine has been
> a doorstop in my office for close to
firstly, thanks to those who helped me w/ configuring my intel isa-
bus ethernet nic.
secondly, the machine in question is running kernel 2.2.20-idepci.
i don't really recall when it was installed as the machine has been
a doorstop in my office for close to a year now. i tried to apt-get
some pa
Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
Now my question is: do you still have any other problem? If the answer
is no, I do not see why you should worry about those removed packages. ;)
This is very true! I have found one new problem (and know how to fix
it): the gnome control center doesn't show up the sawfish-sp
That remarkable Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:16, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
> (list of 66 packages, including gdm, gnome-session, xfonts-base, sawfish)
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> (list of 22 packages)
> 36 packages upgraded, 22 new
Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those
"--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---" than by going
into the dreaded dselect?
I think that if you get into dep
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 17:44, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Anyhow, my second question is this: is there a better way to find those
> "--- Obsolete and local packages present on system ---" than by going
> into the dreaded dselect?
I think that if you get into dependencies proble
On Wed, 11 Jun 2003 16:00:21 +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to
> the next problem. Gnome won't start.
>
> I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I
> enter a user id and password. Pressing OK wou
Rodrigo Agerri wrote:
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the
greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in
~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error
Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to
the next problem. Gnome won't start.
I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I
enter a user id and password. Pressing OK would then normally take me to
the Gnome desktop f
Hi!
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:11:53PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
snip [...]
> Anyhow, with a simple apt-get, I now have X working, and can move on to
> the next problem. Gnome won't start.
>
> I have gdm installed, giving me a login dialog (greeter) in which I
> enter a user id and pass
> /etc/gdm/Sessions/Gnome calls for the execution of another script
> /usr/bin/gnome-session, which is sadly missing from my system. Despite
I did dpkg -s /usr/bin/gnome-session. Its in package 'gnome-session'.
> looking through the update instructions, I found no mention of this
> script or whe
That remarkable Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 15:11, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> What happens now is that the screen blanks for about a second, then the
> greeter comes back again, without logging in. When I look in
> ~/.gnome-errors, there are a couple of warnings, but one fatal error
> which seems to
This has got to be the longest time without a working system since I
started using Debian in november 1995. Of course, when I say 'working' I
mean 'with a working desktop' - I still have FTP and all non X-related
stuff working, and my system thinks it has completely upgraded OK.
Normally I would ha
dang, this debian is sooo cool.
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 07:31:51PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:52:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's
> > document at
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/referen
On Sat, Oct 19, 2002 at 12:52:03PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's
> document at
>
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html
>
> is this still a reasonably sane approach? (of course, we'd have
> to s/stable/
will trillich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i know, it's not fresh news, but i'm about ready to jump from
> potato to woody.
Happy landings ;-)
I found the simple dist-upgrade just did it - have you any special reason
to be apprehensive?
Glyn
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Debian
i know, it's not fresh news, but i'm about ready to jump from
potato to woody.
all i can find on debian.org about making the leap is in osamu's
document at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-woody.en.html
is this still a reasonably sane approach? (of course, we'd have
to s/st
"Iram" == Iram Mahboob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Iram> Hi, I am new to linux can you please help me in upgrading my
Iram> kernel. I currently have debian version 2.2.19. I want to
Iram> upgrade it to 2.4.18. How can I do it?
You are running either Debian Potato or Debian Woody
Iram Mahboob said:
> Hi,
> I am new to linux can you please help me in upgrading my kernel.
> I currently have debian version 2.2.19. I want to upgrade it to 2.4.18.
> How can I do it?
> I have tried to do a
luckily apt-get does not automatically upgrade the kernel. you
can do it manually thoug
Hi,
I am new to linux can you please help me in upgrading my kernel.
I currently have debian version 2.2.19. I want to upgrade it to 2.4.18. How
can I do it?
I have tried to do a
apt-get update
followed by an
apt-get dist-upgrade.
But i have not been able to upgrade my kernel. Even when I do a
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 11:23, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> I just realized that I never updated the list on this project.
>
> I did as Karl suggested, except skipped the --simulate step (got
> impatient). Everything worked absolutely flawlessly, except my attempt to
> write LILO to the new drive without
I just realized that I never updated the list on this project.
I did as Karl suggested, except skipped the --simulate step (got
impatient). Everything worked absolutely flawlessly, except my attempt to
write LILO to the new drive without a floppy boot. I tried changing
/etc/lilo.conf to write to
Thanks to all for the comments. I had assumed that /dev/hd* simply started
at a and incremented by 1, but am happy to know the two IDE channels are
separate.
Karl, thanks for the cautious tips -- I'll pay attention to them :). Note
that / and /boot are on hdb, not hda, so there's literally nothing
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:48:49AM -0400, Andrew Perrin wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE drives in
> it. /dev/hda does nothing important; it's an old (probably 1993 or
> 1994) 1.2G whose sole role in life at this point is to have an MBR with
> LILO
On Mon, 13 May 2002 09:48:49 -0400 (EDT)
"Andrew Perrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings-
>
> I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE drives in
> it. /dev/hda does nothing important; it's an old (probably 1993 or
> 1994) 1.2G whose sole role in life at this point is to h
Andrew,
In the section where you are adjusting drive references, you will want to
leave /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd drive references alone. You are only messing
with the first ide channel, not the second one. They will NOT change. The
only exception to this is if you plan on re-jumper'ing and re-
Greetings-
I have a machine currently running potato. It has four IDE drives in
it. /dev/hda does nothing important; it's an old (probably 1993 or
1994) 1.2G whose sole role in life at this point is to have an MBR with
LILO to boot DOS, NT, or (99% of the time) Debian.
That drive is quickly dying
On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 10:51:53PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
| On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote:
| > newbie here...
| >
| > Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way.
| > If I want to upgrade to woody from potato...
| >
| > 1) Change the apt sources.list to
On Sun, 2002-03-03 at 22:19, Ross Tsolakidis wrote:
> newbie here...
>
> Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way.
> If I want to upgrade to woody from potato...
>
> 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody.
> 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages.
>
If you are useing ds
YOu man need to run:
apt-get install xbase-clients xserver-xfree86
Or one or the other. Startx is in xbase-clients.
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 01:20, Greg Madden wrote:
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> On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > hi all, I to
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 12:52:17AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody.
> so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go??
> My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't exist(??)
> I used to have the x serv
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On Sunday 03 March 2002 08:52 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody.
> so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go??
> My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't
hi all, I took the plunge and dist-upgraded from potato to woody.
so far so good, except for one thing... where did my X server go??
My machine boots to a login prompt and startx doesn't exist(??)
I used to have the x server load at boot time.
xucaen
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:19:40PM +1100, Ross Tsolakidis wrote:
> newbie here...
>
> Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way.
> If I want to upgrade to woody from potato...
>
> 1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody.
> 2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages.
Personally
Title: upgrading to woody.
newbie here...
Just want to make sure I'm doing it the right way.
If I want to upgrade to woody from potato...
1) Change the apt sources.list to point to woody.
2) dselect and just upgrade all the packages.
Is that it ?
Thanks :)
--
Ross.
Alex therre are at least two versions of Xfree on
Woody, which Xfree are you using. I know when I
upgraded to Woody my X Server would not start either,
I had to download the xserver seperately. And if your
using 4.?.? the xconfig file is XF86Config-4.
Don
--- Axel Minck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
I just upgraded my potato to woody, but now i can't start X server and i
get the following message
(--) no ModulePath specified using default : /usr/X11R6/lib/modules
dbe: Unknown error loading module
Config Error: /etc/X11/XF86Config: 48
Subsection "extmod"
Module section keyword exp
Once upon a time Curtis Vaughan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect:
> Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering
Install:
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> pcmc
On Tue, 19 Feb 2002, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect:
> Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering Install:
>
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
> pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386
>
> Which was th
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 06:09:48PM -0800, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
|
| Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect:
| Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering Install:
|
| The following NEW packages will be installed:
| pcmcia-modules-2.4.
Having finally finished upgrading, I get the following problem in dselect:
Although I have chosen no new packages it will tell me after entering Install:
The following NEW packages will be installed:
pcmcia-modules-2.4.17-386
Which was the 2nd package of updates I did after the packages for in
dpkg -l
or
dpkg --get-selections
From: "Ian Chilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I ment, before I do the dist-upgrade, I wanted to remove stuff from the
> base install that I didn't want..
Hello,
Thanks for the reply!
> I don't recommend installing all packages then getting rid of them
> one by one. One - you can't install all packages for some packages
> conflict with other packages. Two - not a good policy on simplicity's
> grounds, as production environments shouldn't be burden
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Ian Chilton wrote:
>Hello,
>
>** I am not subscribed to the list, so please CC replies to
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>I have just been given remote access to a box I am going to use as
a
>server. It has Debian 2.2 (stable) installed. (It's a Sun Ultra 1
Hello,
** I am not subscribed to the list, so please CC replies to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] **
I have just been given remote access to a box I am going to use as a
server. It has Debian 2.2 (stable) installed. (It's a Sun Ultra 1
(sparc64)).
What I want to do is the following:
- Remove unwanted pack
On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:17:53PM -0700, D. wrote:
> I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving the error not
> preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is not installed.
> My question is when you do a upgrade like this why isn't apt-utils
> installed with the upgrade if it is required for
Thus spake D.:
> Hi All
> I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PII
> 800 MGZ) with a EN2242 Nic Card that I had to
> configure the tulip driver for.
> I did a dist upgrade and keep receiving the error
> not preconfiguring the package apt-utils is not
> installed. My question is whe
quot; on some packages.
> Maybe you could even force a complete reinstall of
> the dist-upgrade by doing
> a apt-get --reinstall dist-upgrade, but I didn't
> test that.
>
> Bastiaan Huisman
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.student.kun.nl/b.huisman
>
> - Origi
-
From: "D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2001 1:17 AM
Subject: upgrading to Woody, apt-utils question
> Hi All
> I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450
> (PIII
> 800 MGZ) with a EN2442 Nic Card that I had to
> configur
Hi All
I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450
(PIII
800 MGZ) with a EN2442 Nic Card that I had to
configure the tulip driver for.
I did a dist upgrade to Woody and keep receiving
the error not preconfiguring the package, apt-utils is
not installed.
My question is when you do a up
Hi All
I'm running Potato 2.2.r3 on a HP Pavilion 5450 (PII
800 MGZ) with a EN2242 Nic Card that I had to
configure the tulip driver for.
I did a dist upgrade and keep receiving the error
not preconfiguring the package apt-utils is not
installed. My question is when you do a upgrade like
this
* Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-09 19:50):
> That's exactly the way it is...
> I went through all the trouble to get it to work with X 3.3 to find that
> it doesn't seem to work the same way with X 4
It should work the same way with X3 as it does with X4. I have used gpm
with b
El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 07:32:22PM +0100, Sean Quinlan dijo:
-| * Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-09 18:40):
-| > El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:02:35PM -0500, ktb dijo:
-| > -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
-| > -| Shut down gpm and see if your m
* Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (2001-09-09 18:40):
> El Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:02:35PM -0500, ktb dijo:
> -| On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 06:44:23PM +0200, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
> -| Shut down gpm and see if your mouse works.
> -| # /etc/init.d/gpm stop
> -|
> -| You might have to poin
os Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> -| > To: Lista de Debian-KDE
> -| > Subject: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)
> -| > User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i
> -| >
> -| > After an upgrade to Woody and X 4 , and quite a bit of a trouble to be
> -| > able to get m
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-| > Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:42:24 +0200
-| > From: Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
-| > To: Lista de Debian-KDE
-| > Subject: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)
-| > User
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> Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2001 18:42:24 +0200
> From: Daniel de los Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Lista de Debian-KDE
> Subject: Mouse problems after upgrading to Woody (X4)
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.20i
>
> After an upgrade to Woody and X 4 , and quite a bit of a trouble
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After an upgrade to Woody and X 4 , and quite a bit of a trouble to be
able to get my X bac
Am 04. Sep, 2001 schwäzte tluxt so:
> Thanks for the confirmation. I have just done that fix, and
> I think (after having several more errors, but just redoing
> "apt-get dist-upgrade" several times), I may have succeeded in
> getting upgraded to woody. (At least my final a-g d-u did nothing
> b
(Mail-Followup-To: set to -user only. I'd also appreciate not being
directly cc'ed on your questions; I read both -user and -devel, so I got
three copies of this!)
On Mon, Sep 03, 2001 at 11:01:56PM -0700, tluxt wrote:
> In fact, the directory:
> /etc/exim
> does not exist.
You can create it your
--- "der.hans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That does fix it. Ran into it somewhere the other day.
>
> Yes, this is a bug.
Thanks for the confirmation. I have just done that fix, and
I think (after having several more errors, but just redoing
"apt-get dist-upgrade" several times), I may have suc
Am 03. Sep, 2001 schwäzte tluxt so:
> "
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2001 at 12:20:57AM -0600, Phil Reardon wrote:
> > On Monday 13 August 2001 11:36 pm, John Galt wrote:
> > > mkdir /etc/exim then rerun apt-get dist-upgrade... You won't ha
Starting from a (IIRC) rather basic potato system, I did (essentially):
change sources.list to point to testing
apt-get update
apt-get dist-upgrade
I got the following error after much stuff had installed:
Preparing to replace exim 3.12-10 (using .../archives/exim_3.31-1_i386.deb) ...
mv: cannot
Hello,
I just installed a fresh potato, pointed my sources.list to the "unstable"
branch, and executed apt-get update; apt-get dist-upgrade.
Unfortunately, this terminated with an error about unmet dependencies.
Here's the output of "apt-get check" if I run it now:
# apt-get check
Reading Package
Hello, I've two major problems later an upgrade to woody:
First, apache doesn't work now...at the finel setup of the woody upgrade it said
me that libpaperg setting up failed, so I removed.
Second, I removed php4 and when I try to reinstall apt-get says that php4 is not
candidate to install...
S
Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>When lines for woody are added to /etc/apt/sources.list, should the lines
>for potato be taken out or left in? Thanks!
Typically taken out, though leaving them in does no actual harm. Note
that woody is currently missing some packages which will be in t
When lines for woody are added to /etc/apt/sources.list, should the lines
for potato be taken out or left in? Thanks!
Ben Pharr
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
About a week ago I did a "apt-get -u dist-upgrade" in order to move from
potato to woody. When some of the packages were installing I got an
error. I figured some of the packages were just broken so I gave it a few
days. Today I went back and typed:
apt-get clean
apt-get update
apt-get -f i
Benjamin Pharr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Late last week I installed potato from a CD onto my test box. I
>dist-upgraded all the packages in stable, built a 2.4 kernel, and installed
>modutils from unstable so I could load modules from 2.4.0. At this point
>everything was still going fine, no
Late last week I installed potato from a CD onto my test box. I
dist-upgraded all the packages in stable, built a 2.4 kernel, and installed
modutils from unstable so I could load modules from 2.4.0. At this point
everything was still going fine, not a problem in site. Next I add sources
for
On Sat, Jan 27, 2001 at 05:18:40PM -0600, Joshua Kruck wrote:
> Hello,
> Is there a way to install woody from scratch. When i installed potato i
> took the disks off a mirror. Then i did a net install for the rest. Is
> there a way to do this for woody as well? I have been looking in the
> disk dir
Hello,
Is there a way to install woody from scratch. When i installed potato i
took the disks off a mirror. Then i did a net install for the rest. Is
there a way to do this for woody as well? I have been looking in the
disk directories, but they all seem to be empty. am i missing something
way obvi
I upgraded to woody, and now the talk daemon cannot connect to other
talk daemons nor itself. That is I cannot talk to myself on my machine.
Has anybody else experienced this? Can this be due to some network
setting?
Thanks in adnvance
--
Preben Randhol -- http://www.pvv.org
Hi Michael!
Michael Mertins schrieb am Donnerstag, dem 30. November 2000:
> I have a large problem getting umlauts to work since I upgraded to woody.
If you are who I think you are, then we solved this problem by
setting the LC* variables in /etc/environment, right?
also see man locale (not esp
Hi,
I have a large problem getting umlauts to work since I upgraded to woody.
I made the XFree4.0-Server run although I use a voodoo3-2000. Caused me
some problems etc. but it works now. Aswell I got that new locales-package. I
edited /etc/locale.gen and generated de_DE aswell I edited
/etc/X11/XF8
Hi.
I did an apt-get update and got the new versions of some
sound-related files... And it's working now.
J.
--
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Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~jeronimo
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi. I am using deb packages of Gnome and sawmill in woody.
And same problem occured to me.
Some related message are shown in my ~/.xsession-errors file
as follows.
>Audio File Library: error 3: Unix open failed
>** WARNING **: Couldn't load sound file /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/ as
>sample gn
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote:
> :: On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:47:28 +0200, Florian Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> said:
>
> > I' have installed a new woody some time ago but I have the same
> > problem now.
> > (it worked fine for a long time)
>
> Did you upgrade some gnome, enlight
:: On Sun, 9 Apr 2000 18:47:28 +0200, Florian Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> I' have installed a new woody some time ago but I have the same
> problem now.
> (it worked fine for a long time)
Did you upgrade some gnome, enlightenment or sound packages? If you
did, then this could be a bug...
I' have installed a new woody some time ago but I have the same
problem now.
(it worked fine for a long time)
--
Florian Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Uptime:1 hours ** Its now 18:44
One if by LAN, two if by C.
Hello,
I was using potato with some woody packages (a lot of woody
packages, actually), and decided to dist-upgrade. Everything went
fine, but when I started X again, I had a sound problem:
Sounds seem to have been truncated (they won't play for more than
one second). Mostly gnome and
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